Musis musas,
Said Jove to his lass,
Musæ musis.
Can ambrosia beat this?
DECLENSIONS OF NOUNS ADJECTIVE.
Some nouns adjective are declined with three terminations—as a pacha of three tails would be, if he were to make a proposal to an English heiress—as bonus, good—tener, tender. Sweet epithets! how forcibly they remind us of young Love and a leg of mutton.
Bonus, bona, bonum,
Thou little lambkin dumb,
Boni, bonæ, boni,